Salute to Veterans has traction with modelers

6:35 PM,
Nov. 4, 2013

Dick Schauerte kneels inside his Deerfield Township, Ohio, home next to scale models World War II era German vehicles including of a panther tank, from left, armored car, and a Marder III M tank destroyer.

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Hobbyists will bring their scaled down models of tanks, armored cars and soldiers to the city's full size Salute to Veterans weekend Nov. 9-10.

The city's sixth salute, organized by Fort Thomas Renaissance and the Fort Thomas Military and Community Museum, will be inside the Mess Hall Community Center & Banquet Facility in Tower Park at 801 Cochran St. It will also feature military re-enactors in World War II era uniforms, displays from military history and veterans organizations, and the singing of patriotic songs by students.